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Let’s assume that you’ve got plenty of money to spend. You’ve always wanted the best (not necessarily the fastest) desktop components money can buy. You’re the kind of individual who ventured into 4K displays when they still cost a fortune. You buy TITAN-range graphics cards and regularly pour a heap of money into your desktop setup. If you’re in this demographic, this CPU will be worthy of significant importance to you.

This week has been one of many firsts. Intel and AMD are clubbing together. Lian Li is making cases with tempered glass and regular steel. Microsoft is ahead of Sony in the console spec wars. But that’s nothing compared to what’s been announced today by Intel, and that is the creation of a new graphics and compute division inside the company headed up by former AMD executive Raja Koduri. Graphics cards, guys! Intel wants to make graphics cards.

Hell has frozen over, ladies and gents. Intel and AMD have gotten in bed together and announced a collaboration. They’ll work on a combined Intel CPU and AMD GPU package that’ll be sold to notebook vendors who want to spend less time sourcing quality components. There’s a lot of confusion surrounding this new chip, so let’s get to demystifying it.

Just over four months ago during Computex 2017, Intel and its partners announced the X299 platform and associated CPUs. For the first time, we’d finally have parity between the HEDT and desktop platforms from Intel. No longer would the HEDT chipsets be relegated to older technologies while the desktop parts flourished with support for new technologies like Intel Optane and native support for the latest connectivity standards.

Last week, you might have read about a new development with Windows 10 where an entire generation of computers based on Intel’s Clover Trail processor family aren’t capable of upgrading to Windows 10 Creators Update. While the reasons for the decision from Microsoft weren’t available at the time, speculation was rife that it had something to do with driver development. Now that Microsoft has revealed that it made a plan to support these computers specifically, the reasons behind the move are made more clear. It’s certainly a unique problem that no-one really seems geared up to solve.

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